Thursday, August 29, 2013 6:00 pm – 6:50 pm Wollman Hall 65 W. 11th St, 5th Floor To mark the start of the academic year, all students, faculty and staff of SCE are invited to attend the SCE Convocation. The Dean and Directors will provide an overview of the coming …

The Timber In The City Competition, which was co-sponsored by by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the School of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New School for Design, asked participants to to design a mid-rise, mixed-use complex with affordable housing units, a job training/educational facility, a center …

A new digital edition of SCE Faculty Member Robert Kirkbride’s multimedia book, Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro, which received the Gutenberg-e Prize and was nominated for the Herbert Baxter Adams Book Award, was recently re-formatted and launched on a second site, the ACLS (American Council …

Two years ago, students from Parsons The New School for Design and Stevens Institute of Technology worked together to design “Empowerhouse” as an entry for the US Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.  And now, Lakiya Culley and her three sons are living in the duplex home built by Habitat for …

Masters of Architecture Graduate, Rahul Shah, was recently featured in Fast Company’s Co.Exist Blog. The article highlights Shah’s thesis project, called Exorcise Pool, in which he develops a solution to the polluted Newtown Creek that divides East Williamsburg and Queens in New York. Shah’s plan involves rerouting the contaminated water …

Last spring, Two MFA Interior Design students, Samantha Obell and Paloma Sherman, won the 2013 International Interior Design Association New York Design This! Competition. Students were given one hour to design the floor of a public space using new DesignFLEX Visualizer software. Obell and Sherman were given a space with …